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Scurrilous persons who might have called Il Duce a Christmas niggard forebore to do so, last week, when he despatched 300 tons of food supplies and clothing to gladden impoverished citizens of Albania, troublous Adriatic ally of Italy...
Building up Albania's natural forces from within is the work of Dr. C. T. Erickson who will lecture in Phillips Broks House next Tuesday evening on "The Menace of Albania to World Peace, and its cure." In his work Dr. Erickson is assisted by B. J. Snyder '16, and is in the United States to enlist the sympathy and aid of Americans in his American School in Albania...
...Erickson to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday, "That an insignificant pawn becomes the deciding factor in the great chess game of nations; chess however is child's play compared to the complexities of Balkan politics. Because of her helplessness, her half-developed state, her strategic location, a blow at Albania shakes the entire body of Europe...
...seeking the practical solution to Albania's acute problem, Dr. Erickson recognizes two major needs; the first is for capital to be invested in her rich natural resources; the second is for education. To meet this second requirement Dr. Erickson has opened his American Agricultural School. The Albanian government supplied him with 1000 acres of land. It was confiscated, Dr. Erickson has been an exile with a price on his head; a few years later however he represented Albania at the peace conference...
...treaty signed last week accomplished all requisite trumpeting. It dressed up the well-known dependence of Albania upon Italy in the guise of an "unalterable defensive alliance" between sovereign states. With this counterblast against the Franco-Jugoslav treaty, Signor Mussolini perhaps dazzled and reassured some impressionable Italians. The feelings of non-Italians were well echoed by the Journal des Debats of Paris which called the treaty "a gesture of bad humor...